Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show

For Banned Books Week 2026, the show team plus guest-host Jordan Moore (User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library) chat about book bans, challenges, dangerous knowledge, and what we talk about when talk about banned books. First broadcast October 9 2026. Playlist "What do you mean 'we'?"

For this episode of the GT Library Guidebook series, the show team give a short history of the computer labs in the Georgia Tech Library and talks about computing in the library, particularly the lack of actual computers and the reliance on docking stations. Part XVII of The GT Library Guidebook First broadcast October 2 2026 Playlist "What is a thin client?"

An Atlanta archivist discusses her work at Georgia State University and AUC, featuring hip-hop, pop culture, and best friends that you never meet. Guest: Brittany Newberry, Community Engagement Archivist at the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library. First broadcast September 25 2026. Playlist "Never in my life did I think I was going to get to do something I enjoyed outside of work."

For an Introduce Yourself show, a systems librarian discusses the many facets of his professional identity and the points of intersection for librarianship and information technology in his job.  Guest: Thomas Waters, Library Systems Technologist at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast September 18 2026. Playlist "... in the center of the Venn diagram between librarianship and information tec...

A professor of AI from Georgia Tech joins the show to discuss synthetic data, AI training on its own output, and other potential conundrums in the ongoing saga of AI in the sciences. Guest: Dr. Mark Riedl of the School of Interactive Computing, Director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center, and Gitesh Ramamurthy Endowed Professor of AI at the Georgia Institute of Technology. First broadcast...

For this episode of the GT Library Guidebook series, the show team talks about room G201 in the Georgia Tech Library, also known as the Microfilm Reading Room, and reflects on old media, libraries, and small hidden spaces. Part XV of The GT Library Guidebook First broadcast September 4 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81991 Playlist "I guess I'm Team Microfilm?"

The three assistant deans of the Georgia Tech Library join the show to talk about their jobs, responsibilities, and aspirations in their leadership roles. Guests: Jay Forrest, Assistant Dean for Collections Strategy and Development; Dr. Mack Freeman, Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives; and Jody Thompson, Assistant Dean for Archives, Records Management, and Digital Curation, all at th...

Elizabeth Keathley and Lisa Grimm, authors of Practical Digital Asset Management (DAM), discuss the principles and the discontents of DAM while reminding us to back digital asset management for the win. Guests: Elizabeth Keathley and Lisa Grimm, authors of Practical Digital Asset Management First broadcast August 21 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81976 Playlist "I get excited abou...

This encore of Part 3 of the occasional series "Citizen Archiving," which considers the archival actions of private citizens, features an interview with the late Steve Albini, legendary recording engineer and musician, about what must be saved, recorded, and considered when creating the master tapes of musical performances. Part 3 of CITIZEN ARCHIVING Guest: Steve Albini of Electrical Audio. First...

The hosts of the library-themed WRFG Atlanta public-affairs show Radical Reference With Sister Sai talk about how the show started and their values, process, and plans for radical reference on the radio. Guests: Saira Raza and Keeza Hameed, hosts of Radical Reference on WRFG Atlanta (and Emory librarians). First broadcast on August 7 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81972 Playlist "...

In the third and final episode of an unofficial "Library of Congress" trilogy, catalogers from the ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on Subfield V Retention discuss the Library of Congress's announcement that they have stopped using Subfield V and form subdivisions, e.g. "Mistaken identity--Juvenile drama." Guests: Chloe Misorski, Head of Cataloging Services and Library Systems at...

Catalogers discuss rejecting neutrality in the creation and management of subject headings, taking special notice of the Library of Congress's insistence on (some version of) "neutrality." Guests: Deborah Tomaras, Metadata and Resource Management Librarian at Marist University; Tina Gross, Metadata Analyst at University of Minnesota. First broadcast July 24 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.n...

The show team, with the help of cataloger Sofia Slutskaya, discusses the Library of Congress and tries to answer the question, "We don't have a National Library... or do we?" Guest: Sofia Slutskaya, Head of Resource Description at Emory University Libraries. First broadcast July 10, 2026. Playlist "As a cataloger, I need a more precise definition."

A Georgia Tech faculty member describes how using AI to write MATLAB code improved a course on chemical reactor design and the benefits of discarding the analytic solution for complex, real-life problems. Guest: Dr. Michael Filler of the Georgia Tech School of Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering. First broadcast June 26 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81864 Playlist "You are expe...

The show team discusses the 2013 blog post " The End of the Library " by M.G. Siegler, clickbait that argued that the economics of ebooks and the existence of the Internet meant that libraries had to change or disappear. First broadcast June 12 2026. Transcript at  https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81848 Playlist "Today's episode is called 'The End of the Library.' No it's not, it's called Clickbait."

The show team has an unthemed conversation for this summer free cut. They discuss travelling to see art, Google Maps, having your assumptions tested, failure as growth, and if the phrase "get in the car, it's summer" has any significant cultural meaning. First broadcast June 5 2026. Transcript at  https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81828 Playlist "Yeah, it's not really working for me."

Georgia Tech faculty members talk about experimenting with virtual reality tools in a composition course, students experiencing multimodal Hamlet , and assessing how best to teach the "To be or not to be" monologue. Audio from a live recording during the Georgia Tech Library's  Media Arts Day , January 29 2026.  Guests: Dr. Kelly Williams, Marion L Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech; Dr....

Members of the Georgia Tech Library's Accessibility Community of Practice get into the weeds discussing alt text for mathematics in scholarly works. Guest: Jordan Moore, User Experience Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast May 22 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81587 Playlist "We're getting down in the weeds."

A Georgia Tech scholar from the College of Liberal Arts discusses the place of humanities in academia and how crisis is their natural habitat. Guest: Dr Richard Utz, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. First broadcast May 8, 2026. Transcript at  https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81266 Playlist .  "The humanities, as a term, would not exis...

A recovering academic discusses Russian dissident literature and why samizdat is not a monolithic genre. Guest: Dr. Josephine von Zitzewitz, author of  The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union First broadcast May 1 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81260 Playlist "Yoga?"

For an Introduce Yourself show, a new but seasoned Georgia Tech librarian discusses his year of firsts in the profession. Guest: Ryan Gaylor, Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 24 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81255 Playlist "Right on."

Guest: Mark Yoffe, Russia, Eurasia, Eastern and Central Europe Resource Center Librarian at George Washington University, discussing the  International Counterculture Archive .  First broadcast April 17 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81243 Playlist "You may be familiar with the Russian word samizdat ."

Interview with Audrey Russek, Head of the UC Davis Food and Drink Collection Broadcast April 10, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81239 Playlist   "You might not be looking at the cookbook for the recipes, you might be looking at it to understand community."

Guest: Heather Jeffcoat, Web and Discovery Management Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. First broadcast April 3 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/81151 Playlist "You ever miss the days when you could change a website just by typing in a few HTML lines?"

Guest: Wayne Li, James L. Oliver Professor of the Practice in the Colleges of Design and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. First broadcast March 20, 2026. Transcript at https://hdl.handle.net/1853/80843 Playlist "It's always a tricky question to answer without context."